A GROUP of blacks strangled, beat and kicked a defenceless white man to death in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, the Commercial Farmers Union said on Friday. The unprovoked attack on Wednesday took place in a built up residential area of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe’s second biggest city, in front of bystanders waiting for transport into some of the city’s poorer suburbs, an official in the CFU regional office said by telephone. None of the bystanders went to the victim’s aid, a witness told the CFU’s regional office. The attackers shouted profanities, and then gloated over his death, the CFU said. The witness said one of the attackers called someone on a cellphone and boasted: “We’ve killed a mukiwa [white],” according to the official. The death of the man in Bulawayo brings to at least 29 the number of people killed in the land occupations and in political violence since the crisis broke out.
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